The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27
I'LL NYE AT THE PLAY
He Draws Election RemOrse
at a Variety Show.
IS WINKED AT BY A SINGER.
Paris as Seen on the Bowery 9tage-
An Airy Costume for
Gold Climate

IaSG week 50 uIIl0 dIIouIlOu Ado USou
paid by the bright and able amusement
and theatrical writers of the New York
Press to the bill nightly presented by
the London Theatre of this place. Ger
tain1y for those who enjoy an evening
of uninterrupted enjoyment at a trifing
expense there is nothing at present to
compete with the London. Three hours
of solid fun that anybody can under
stand, together with thirty or forty
songs and play, are very rarely offered
in this city for % cents, and it certainly
seems to me to usher in an era of pros
perity and good feeling among the plain
people who enjoy spectacular, musical
and dramatic season at cut rates.
| had feared that the London The
atre would partake so much of Eng
fish customs and English methods that
perhaps it might at first be startling to
one who is so thoroughly an American
every day in the week as | am, but l
was told that most every one connected
with the theatre was born in this
country.
found myself readily ad @pting my
self to the English customs Of the Lon
don Theater, however, as the enter
tainment went on, and though the
habit of marking tine on the part of
the audience with The feet seems odd at
first, one soon gets accustomed to it so
that one keeps ones feet going to ones
infinite delight throughout.
l did not take lady with me to the
Londnn, thinking that would go first
and see how 1 liked it myself. L
founded that the rest of the audience
consisted of gentlemen who evidently
thought the same way.
1t was good opportunity to study
the English audience, though OF course
there were many American visitors
there like myself, several OF whom
took of their hats towards the close Of
the entertainment.
THE SCENE OPENS
with a can-opener and an overture,
during which rapid flddling is done by
three men, who gain perceptibly on
each other in a half-mile dash, fol-
lowed by the clarionet later, and the
hoarse accents of the xylophone. 1t is
medley, and admirable time was
kept by the audience, led by two
sailors who sat near me, dressed up
in their other clothes and chew OF
tobacco apiece, which made that side
of their faces sag considerably, and
gave them sinister expression of coun-
tenances and q tinge of ill-concealed
navy tobacco. When the vast audience
was perfectly still, as it frequently was
after humorous burst from the stage,
fancied that I could hear the salivary
glands of these two old tars toiling on
hopelessIy through the slowly moving
hours.
The curtain then rises and discloses a
brilliant picture of Partisan life. judge
that the climate of Paris is such that
people can dress themselves on great
deal less money than they can here.
But believe that what they save there
in clothes must go for doctors bills and
mutton tallow with which to rub their
chests at night, for, as hardy as l am,
would not dare to go to balls and par
ties with nothing but light pair OF
velvet shoulder straps over my lungs.
The Partisan people seem to pride
themselves on their lung power, but l
must say that / think it fool.hardy to
go about on these crisp autumn even
ings with little to protect the chest but
cent bunch of pansies.
AFTER THE PARIS LIFE EPISODE,
which is really more spectacular than
anything else, the Acme Quartet Club.
consisting of four handsome young men
in full dress and police gloves, MARBLES
few strains, during which it attalns
the higher notes with some difficulty
and swollen jugular veins. The Acme
Quartet pleased me very much, espe-
clally when it refused to sing any more.
think the Acme is certainly superior
TO the Climax Quartet, the Trophy, the
Little Mammoth or the Early Dwarf
Quartet.
A tableau was now produced with
Eden Musee effects and, with calcium
light thrown on it, pleased me much
better than the Railway murder.
After this Messrs. Manchester and
Jennings introduced some more songs,
dances and comedy flashes. Just as
the dust would get fairly settled on the
stage some one would burst forth intoa
hoarse and croupy jig. Then thers
would be song in which one party
represented as strolling down Broad
way. When he gets about as far as
Fourteenth Street he produces a tin
cornucopis holding about pint of
sand, jerks it few times over the stage,
and, throwing his head back so that the
gallery can get good view of his vocal
chords, he fsvors the people along lower
Broadway with a tremulous double
clog. He then stops and sings another
verse Of the song, which brings him
down about Park Place. After he has
done this, he dances some more and
starts out L. q. E., evidently for the
Cortlandt Street Ferry. but soon reap
pears with different suit of clothes and
carols again with the same light-hearted
manner that q man wears when he goes
over to the depot to meet his pro" l
son who is just returning pennies
penitent, Iem the pest house.
Ten minutes are next DEVOTED to g. :
lechons from French opera by Delaur
and Debimont, who also change their
clothes several times, after which
NINE LOVELY WOMEN
are discovered standing on the stage
dressed ia mems clothes. Nine lovely
women look better in their own clothes,
l think, and the further into them they
can get, in cold weather, the better.
These nine lovely women sing q song